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Women in the Archives: Organizing Knowledge

rness | January 7, 2011

Papers are now being invited for Women in the Archives, a two-day conference co-sponsored by the Women Writers Project and the Sarah Doyle Womens Center at Brown University. This year the theme is Organizing Knowledge, focusing on systems of knowledge representation in relation to different kinds of archival practice. The conference will be held April … Women in the Archives: Organizing Knowledge

New Director of Digital Technologies Announced

rness | October 19, 2010

Andrew Ashton has been appointed to the position of Director of Digital Technologies, effective December 1, 2010. Andy came to Brown from Skidmore College in 2008 as the Senior Research Programmer for the Scholarly Technology Group (STG). He joined the Library in 2009 as a result of the integration of STG and the Women Writers … New Director of Digital Technologies Announced

Special Collections History and Guide online

rness | September 17, 2010

CDS staffers Benjamin Tyler and Lindsay Elgin recently finished up work on their many contributions to the digital edition of the revised Special Collections History and Guide. The guide presents highlights of Brown’s special collections from the University’s inception and is part of the John Hay Library’s 2010 centennial celebration. A print version of the … Special Collections History and Guide online

Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine relaunched

| August 10, 2010

The CDS, in collaboration with Professor Michael Satlow, recently relaunched the Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine, an online database of over 1,500 inscriptions from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE – 640 CE). The inscriptions are written primarily in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin, by Jews, Christians, Greeks, and Romans. They range from … Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine relaunched

CDS @ DH2010

Elli Mylonas | July 8, 2010

Digital Humanities 2010 in London. CDS presentations: Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman on “Using ODD for Multi-purpose TEI Documentation;” Andy Ashton on “Semantic Cartography: Using RDF/OWL to Build Adaptable Tools for Text Exploration” and Elli Mylonas with a poster on “Discursive Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies.” Conference URL: http://dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ Twitter Hashtag: dh2010 (very active tweeting!) Edit: … CDS @ DH2010

AMCV220: Digital Scholarship, Spring 2010

rness | June 10, 2010

Staff from the Center for Digital Scholarship worked with Professor Susan Smulyans Digital Scholarship class this spring. The website exhibits the 12 resulting student projects (the course syllabus is also available on the website).

Julia Flanders quoted in Chronicle article

rness | May 25, 2010

A May 23, 2010 article by Jennifer Howard entitled “Hot Type: No Reviews of Digital Scholarship = No Respect” features quotes from Julia Flanders, on the issue of achieving academic recognition for digital projects. Here is the relevant section: Julia Flanders is editor in chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly and director of the Women Writers … Julia Flanders quoted in Chronicle article

Scholars Reunite Scraps of an Abraham Lincoln Notebook

rness | May 6, 2010

Via Charlotte Bruce Harvey 78, Brown Alumni Magazine: Using digital images, scholars have discovered that fragments of paper at libraries at Brown and the University of Chicago are two halves of a single page on which the teenaged Abraham Lincoln copied out math problems. Its one of the earliest examples of Lincolns thought and writing. … Scholars Reunite Scraps of an Abraham Lincoln Notebook

Digital History Book Reviewed

Elli Mylonas | April 26, 2010

The latest issue of The American Historical Review (115:632633, April 2010) reviews R. Burr Litchfield’s Florence Ducal Capital, 15301630, published in 2008 as an ACLS Humanities EBook. The book is accompanied by a digital map of Florence that situates its arguments geographically, and was developed in 2006 by STG. From the review, which considers this … Digital History Book Reviewed